Archives of the Direct Action Committee Against Nuclear War (1957-1961) 1956-1963

Arrowsmith, Pat., b 1930

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Brock, Hugh Heron., 1914-1985

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Hugh Brock was born on 15 May 1914 and trained as a printer at the London School of Printing. In 1940 the small printing firm which he ran with his brother Ashley took on the production of the pacifist journal Peace News. Other printers refused to handle it because of the risk of prosecution under the Defence Regulations and a trade ban on its distribution meant that the peace movement had to rely on its own distribution network. Founded in 1936, Peace News was the official paper of...

Direct Action Committee against Nuclear War

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The Direct Action Committee Against Nuclear War (DAC) has its origins in the opposition to the first British hydrogen bomb test at Christmas Island in November 1957. Whilst Labour’s H-Bomb Campaign Committee and the National Council for the Abolition of Nuclear Weapons Tests favoured public meetings, petitions and education work, those in favour of direct action against the test set up an emergency committee to organise and finance a voyage to the test zone by pacifist Harold Steele...

Carter, April., b 1937

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The San Francisco to Moscow Walk for Peace (as it was first known) was an initiative of the Committee for Non Violent Action. The CNVA was an American direct action group based in New York whose leaders included AJ Muste and Bayard Rustin. The walk began on 1 December 1960 and its principal aim was to publicise the case for unilateral nuclear disarmament. The core team of American marchers was accompanied by two photographers and included CNVA secretary Bradford Lyttle. After walkin...

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The Direct Action Committee Against Nuclear War (DAC) has its origins in the opposition to the first British hydrogen bomb test at Christmas Island in November 1957. Whilst Labour’s H-Bomb Campaign Committee and the National Council for the Abolition of Nuclear Weapons Tests favoured public meetings, petitions and education work, those in favour of direct action against the test set up an emergency committee to organise and finance a voyage to the test zone by pacifist Harold Steele...

Randle, Michael Joseph., b 1933

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Michael Randle was born in 1933 in Worcester Park, Surrey, and spent the war years living with relatives in Ireland. He registered as a conscientious objector to military service in 1951 and was given two years alternative service on the land. He became involved in Operation Gandhi (later re-named the Non Violent Resistance Group) in early 1952 and has been active in the peace and nuclear disarmament movements ever since. Michael was a member of the Aldermaston March Com...